If you see a sign that reads "free", don't steal the sign, 'cause it's not the sign that's free, it's the stuff around the sign. Instead, take a photo of the sign and send it to me and I'll post it here. Thanks! email: NormMagnusson@aol.com

Sunday, July 25, 2010

All-star reader and showy-offy app ho P.F.D.B. sends in this 4-banger of pics. Presumably all of the stuff in all of them is free, though it appears that only one shutter click (if his fancy pants iPhone even has a shutter click sound effect) actually captured a free sign.

A quarter bushel of Cape Cod's best quahogs goes out to reader P.F.D.B. for his 25% success.

But the real story is the type on that sign. Sure they ran out of space, but check out those "e"s. Wow. And is that a little serif sneaking in at the bottom of the "r"? I think it is. Serifs are rare-ifs on homemade free signs.

Special thanks to A-grrr for sending it in. A case of cucumber pulp goes out to her as our little way of saying "thanks".

Monday, July 5, 2010

One more from the topic sentence collections. This one via Woodstock Patch from Ojai, CA. A case of 2007 William Selyem Pinot Noir goes out to Patch as our little way of saying "thanks" for thinking of us.

Friday, July 2, 2010

From a couple of my favorite peeps come a coupla totally different pics. A-Grrr sends in the sparkly Christmas Tweety confection above and A-Traum sends in the scorched earth snap below. A case of vintage port to A-Grrr and a tin of Copenhagen to A-Traum as our little way of saying "thanks" for contributing.

Why free?

I value my stuff. I paid for it. I take care of it. Maybe I even admire it. It's worth something to me. But now maybe it's time for me and my stuff to part ways and so it's time for me to take a good hard look at my stuff's emotional value versus its cold hard cash value. Oh sure, maybe I could find somebody on eBay who would be willing to pay $5.00 or so for the lovely used objet that has served me so well all these years. But then I'd have to box it up and drive to the post office and maybe get in line behind someone who smells or is crazy or both and maybe have to deal with a surly post office employee and pay for the shipping and, crap, I'd probably even have to get a Paypal account of my own in order to get paid the $5.00. Damn. That's a lot of trouble for a coupla bucks profit. Maybe I'll just give it away for free. Yeah. Here ya go world! You're not stealing! Just like the sign says, it's free. Enjoy.